Chapter 2
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Summer is hot, just sleep.
Hua Xi'er presents a soft silk quilt. She stretched out her hand to hold the soft pillow that she used to hold when she slept. Aww! She holds it, her lips were contently hooked.
But after a while, she felt weird again. Why was her soft pillow embracing strangely, warm and fragrant? Not so much like a pillow, but rather like ...
She opened her sleepy eyes and disbelief ── "Wow!"
"Hmm.... What's the matter? What happened?" Woken up by a scream, a pair of round eyes opened vaguely, reached out and rubbed with her hand, and yawned lazily.
"Y_ you...." Hua Xi'er glared at the woman sleeping next to her, unable to speak for a long time, and then yelled and shouted.
"Shui Wa'er! When did you come up to my bed? Don't sleep on my bed, get up!"
Her aunty hadn't finished speaking, but the dead woman closed her eyes and planned to continue to sleep.
Hua Xi'er was so angry and shook Shui Wa'er, just not letting her to sleep.
"Don't shake. Please, stop. Ugh... My head is so dizzy." Shui Wa'er surrendered and opened her eyes, sitting up lazily and glancing outside.
It's already dawn. "Xi'er, I'm hungry, and I want to have breakfast."
Shui Wa'er yawned, touching her empty belly. Her belly is very cooperative, immediately issued a grunt.
"Eat your head. I asked you, when did you get into my bed?" Hua Xi'er stared at Shui Wa'er angrily. Question is who dumped her?
"Last night." Shui Wa'er muttered, scratching her messy hair. "You slept like a dead pig and didn't even notice when I climbed onto your bed. Be careful! There are so many people out there, how dare you sleep so soundly. Someday, someone will attack you in the middle of the night, and your life would be gone!"
"Shui Wa'er, are you done?" Hua Xi'er glared at her. This woman - A filthy mouth cannot utter a decent language.*
"Yes." Shui Wa'er smiled, blinked and looked at Hua Xi'er pleasantly. "Xi'er, I'm hungry. I want to have breakfast."
"Y_ you...." Stare and stare again, but can't win those shiny bright eyes, Hua Xi'er gave up. "Xi Que." She called the maid.
Xi Que quickly entered the door. "Miss, why do you wake up so early today..." Before she finished speaking, she was shocked to see Shui Wa'er.
"Hello, Xi Que!" Shui Wa'er greeted with a smile.
"Go prepare breakfast and feed this starving ghost." Hua Xi'er said angrily.
"Yes." Xi Que didn't ask much, and immediately went out to prepare breakfast.
"Tsk Tsk, your family maid is as smart as ever." Shui Wa'er smiled, and a small pink face was even sweeter with a smile.
"Let's change the subject." Hua Xi'er stepped out of bed, picked up the outer garment and put it on. Beautiful eyes glanced at Shui Wa'er. "So, how could you be here in the middle of the night when you have no problem and person who don't go out of the valley?"
Shui Wa'er woman seems to have lived in seclusion in the Valley of Stealing Gods. If she has nothing to do, she will never leave the valley. Even if she does, she will go back to the valley immediately after finishing the work, which makes people think that she is ill.
No matter how, you might think is homesick, isn't it? But she doesn't look like a homesick person at all.
"Well, it's hard to explain." The smile on Shui Wa'er's face faded. She turned to sorrow, and her mouth narrowed. "It's all my elder brother's fault. I ran to steal a princess and came back. But I also came to a show of jealousy. And as result, the place where the Valley of Steals was stolen was exposed and not it is not secret nor safe anymore."
Hua Xi'er listened for a moment, she had heard about Wa'er's Brother stealing a princess, but she didn't expect that things would be that serious.
"But isn't there a formation outside the valley? If you can change the formation no one can get in?" She remembers that the people who stole the gods were not only very good at it, but also have no knowledge of mechanism formation.
"Hmm.. If only things were that simple..." Shui Wa'er sighed even more, looked helpless and pitiful. "As a result, my brother only remembered chasing after the princess who didn't want him actually, so he left me in the valley and I didn't want to stay there alone. It was terrible! Xi'er ..."
Shui Wa'er raised her head and looked at Hua Xi'er pitifully. Her eyes were bright and watery. She looked so pitiful. "Please let me stay."
"No." It's no use pretending to be pitiful to her. Hua Xi'er snorts coldly, her beautiful eyes rising. "Are you afraid of staying alone in the valley? Haha.. Shui Wa'er, since when you became so timid? What else are you hiding?"
Huh! When only she can easily be cheated!?
"Hmph!" Shui Wa'er put away her tears, and pursed her mouth, seeing that the pretense was pitiful and useless to Hua Xi'er. "Hate it! Why are you always so suspicious?"
"Oh! If I'm not being suspicious, I'm afraid I've been sold one day and still yet to know the truth!" Hua Xi'er curled her lips, sat down on the chair, and poured herself a cup of tea.
Knowing that pretending will be useless and stupid, so Shui Wa'er has to be honest about the reason.
"If I continue to stay in the valley, I'm afraid I will be caught."
"Haha! So not only me provoke people. But you too? Well, well... So, you are not any better than me." Hua Xi'er laughed without sympathy. "Wa'er, why? Why are you afraid of being attacked?"
Shui Wa'er stared immediately. "I'm not afraid of others, but that person..." She pursed her lips and had to admit it.
"I'm afraid."
Hua Xi'er stopped laughing and saw that the situation seemed to be really serious, her expression changed to serious. "Who is that person?"
Shui Wa'er glanced at her, took a deep breath, and reluctantly told the story of sneaking into the "Blood House" five years ago when she was twelve years old.
"That time, I was lucky that my brother rescued me but he was also spotted. Blood House issued a wanted message – looking for me and kept tracing the place of stealing Shengu*. So, I did not dare to go out of the valley. I was very careful every time I go out of the valley. I almost got caught several times. I was scared to death, and I didn't dare to go out of the valley."
After hearing this, Hua Xi'er couldn't believe it and exclaimed, "My God! You even got into that cold inexcusable, the current Blood House owner?"
Blood House is a well-known killer group of Jianghu. Leng Wu'she was a well-known cold-blooded killer of Jianghu before he succeeded the landlord.
It is rumored that as long as he takes over the task, he has never failed, and the silent effort makes people die before he can detect his trace.
Like a ghost figure, no one has ever seen his true face, and the mysterious identity is even more frightening.
"White hair, white eyebrows, brown eyes, and skin as white as snow... Is he a ghost? Is there anyone in the world who looks like this?"
"If it's a ghost, I'm not afraid," Shui Wa'er said angrily, "But he's not and I don't know where I offended him, that he keeps chasing after me."
Thinking of the weird boy that year, immediately she felt uneasy. She still remembered those gloomy brown eyes, cold, indifferent, and could not see any emotion at all.
Hua Xi'er looks down and ponders for a while, then looked up at Wa'er again.
Shui Wa'er, as her name implies, petite and exquisite. Even her face and facial features are small. Only those bright big eyes account for almost half of her small face, and the crescent-shaped bangs make her look more lovely and beautiful. Cute, like a pure lily.
"Wa'er, you know, a man will chase a woman so persistently, usually for only one reason..." Hua Xi'er looked at her sympathetically. "Besides, you've already seen people's naked body. Who knows, it was their first time being seen this way by a big girl! Hehe. No wonder that they have been non-stop chasing you. I'm afraid you're responsible for that."
In the end, Hua Xi'er was almost is gloried.
Shui Wa'er got shivered and stared at Hua Xi'er angrily. "Come on! Don't be so horrible. I was only twelve years old. How can I know anything!? And he was more beautiful than any girl I've had seen, and I just didn't see him as a woman..."
Honestly, when she saw him naked at that time, her gaze kept on that evil beauty's face and she dared not look anywhere she shouldn't be.
Recalling the scene five years ago, Shui Wa'er felt that the ears were a little hot. Then looking at Hua Xi'er, blushed and stared back angrily. "Furthermore, I don't think he will look after me. That guy doesn't look like someone who loves people at all." She tooted her little mouth and snorted.
"Why do you say so?" Hua Xi'er raised an eyebrow.
"He... is weird." Shui Wa'er frowned, thinking desperately. "He is very beautiful, and to this day, I haven't seen anyone who looks more beautiful than him. He was kept in a cage. It looked like a beautiful beast, but it's a very beautiful ... "
She paused, thinking about how to describe the boy in the impression. "Evil ... It feels like a demon or a monster. His face was not only cold, but also strange and weird. It's like no emotion..."
How can a person without emotion know how to love someone?
"Anyway, I don't think he chased me because he fell in love with me." If so, it will be scary. It is too scary to fall in love with a man like a ghost!
The more I thought about it, Shui Wa'er couldn't help feeling the fluffy in her heart.
"Oh really?" Hua Xi'er looked at Shui Wa'er disapprovingly.
"Not matter anyway. Xi'er, please let me stay here for a while." Shui Wa'er said with a small tooted mouth. "Even if you don't allow me to. I will still stay here."
"You want to stay here with me?" Hua Xi'er was just a civilian. She couldn't fight that terrible bloody landlord.
"It should be okay for me to hide for a few days anyway. I have to find another secret place. In short, I can't go back stealing Shengu until my elder brother marries that beautiful woman."
If her elder brother is here, at least there's someone can protect her. But now her brother not around, she worried about her own safety.
Well, she can only pray that she can live through these few days in peace.
* Idiom: (********，******)
* Shengu: (**) – Kabeya, Kamiya - Valley of the Gods
- Writer
